Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 17.10 and CentOS 7

I have computer at home with 16Gb memory on which I've installed Ubuntu 17.10. It also has plenty of disk space, so it is going to be much better for experimenting with multi-server setups than my MacBook Air that only has 4Gb memory and 128 Gb SSD storage which is usually full.

While I could certainly sit at that Linux machine as a desktop, I opted to use it mostly to use it as a server and ssh into it.

Now in order to experiment with multiple server setups easily I needed Vagrant and VirtualBox and I wanted to install another Ubuntu as a guest operating system.

Which version of Vagrant and VirtualBox?

I usually prefer to use the packages provided by the OS vendor, that could be installed using the standard package management system.
Unfortunately the version of Vagrant and VirtualBox that are packaged by Ubuntu are old and due to some changes in the web service provided by Hashicorp (the organization behind Vagrant) they don't work any more.

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